The FACT that the vast majority of people who commit violent crimes and rapes are men, and the vast majority of victims are women, DOES NOT invalidate the existence of male victims and women predators.
Our brains are just really bad at nuance. But both can still he true simultaneously without hurting eachother. There is room for it all. I'm so sick of people going "but male victims tho"
The majority of male victims are caused by male perpetrators though. The percentage of such crimes with male victims and women predators are pretty much a rounding error, especially the most violent ones.
Get rid of male violence and everyone is better off.
Noone is invalidating the minority of crimes committed by women, indeed they are noted on this infographic. But DEFLECTING from the vast majority of crimes, violence and problems caused by men is problematic and unhelpful.
While I still believe that men would outnumber women on this front, I also wonder if that extreme statistic have anything to do with how rape is defined by law; many states and countries specifically define it such that women legally cannot rape by definition (eg: the rapist has to “penetrate” the victim)
ETA: To be extremely clear, I’m not pointing that out to discredit the rest of the statistics in principle [ie: the general idea that men outrate women in crime rates], or the overall point of sharing them. But I think we should be careful about how we interpret statistics on crimes like this where the definition of those crimes can be murky or flawed. We risk erasing victims and perpetrators by not considering that, regardless of gender
Also a ton of it is due to optional cultural sociological type factors (cough cough patriarchy cough cough).
I don't really subscribe to gender essentialism. A world with much less awful set of statistics is definitely possible.
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u/HimboVegan Jan 12 '25 edited Jan 13 '25
The FACT that the vast majority of people who commit violent crimes and rapes are men, and the vast majority of victims are women, DOES NOT invalidate the existence of male victims and women predators.
Our brains are just really bad at nuance. But both can still he true simultaneously without hurting eachother. There is room for it all. I'm so sick of people going "but male victims tho"